WATCH: House Republicans send letter to Manhattan DA over possible Trump indictment
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House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) announced that he and other House Republicans have sent a letter to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg over his reported plans to indict former President Donald Trump.
Jordan, along with House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) and House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil (R-WI), wrote to Bragg, acknowledging reports that he is about to commit “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: the indictment of a former President of the United States and current declared candidate for that office.”
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The Ohio representative told Fox News’s Harris Faulkner on Monday that the “letter comes at the direction of the speaker.”
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“We’ve sent this letter to Mr. Bragg saying, ‘We want to talk to you. We want to know what’s going on here. We want to see the communications that have taken place between the federal Justice Department and your district attorney’s office there in Manhattan,” Jordan said on The Faulkner Focus.
He further claimed that Bragg is pursuing “some misdemeanor alleged bookkeeping error,” noting that “First they went after President Trump on Russia, then it was a phone call with Zelensky. Then they wanted his tax returns. Then they go after his business records. Then they go after his children.”
The congressman additionally suggested that “Mr. Bragg himself didn’t want to bring the case but then he got pressured, I think, from the Left.”
“The one thing that has changed — the one thing that I think has changed his mind is President Trump announced he was going to run for president again,” he added.
According to Jordan, they want to know what federal involvement took place, if any.
“Your decision to pursue such a politically motivated prosecution — while adopting progressive criminal justice policies that allow career “criminals [to] run the streets” of Manhattan — requires congressional scrutiny about how public safety funds appropriated by Congress are implemented by local law-enforcement agencies,” wrote the congressmen.
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They requested Bragg submit any communications regarding the investigation of Trump between his office and the U.S. Department of Justice or other federal law enforcement agencies, sent or received by former employees Carey Dunne and Mark Pomerantz, and any communications or documentation having to do with the office’s use of federal funds.
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On Saturday, Trump claimed that he would be arrested on Tuesday, asking his supporters to protest.
This came after several reports emerged on Friday indicating that an indictment from the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office over Trump’s hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels is forthcoming.